Google VP: Future of Web is HTML5

At the Google I/O developer conference keynote, Google emphasized that developers should reduce dependence on plug-ins and use HTML5 open standard. (Adobe Flash not mentioned as the future).

“The future of the web is HTML5,” said Sundar Pichai, Google I/O keynote speaker quoted by CNN. Pichai is the Google vice president of project management who leads innovation efforts including the Google Chrome browser.

In the introduction before the keynote, Google Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, mentions that “The web is the most important platform of our generation.” Google also shows the HTML5 momentum (Apple / iPad added to the slide):

Why is Google pushing for HTML5 and NOT Adobe Flash?

Since 2004, with invention of Ajax and the Web 2.0 revolution, a large number of important applications are all web-based instead of desktop (including Gmail, Google Maps, Twitter, Facebook). None of them are made with Adobe Flash.

HTML has become increasingly powerful over the years. Now, Google claims that web applications, using HTML5, can be comparable to desktop applications:

2 Responses to “Google VP: Future of Web is HTML5”

testing this out, shows that the CPU usage is exactly the same for html5. On top of that there is the issue with no fullscreen, DRM and of course progressive download vs streaming, meaning that this is useless in its current state.

HTML5 may be the future, even Adobe embraces this, and welcomes it! but that does not mean it will take over much of what flash does today, or in the future. They can coexist you know.

And do you really think that HTML5 ads will be any less annoying? in fact, since it will be that much more difficult to block these ads, they may even be more annoying.